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Super Surprised that no one has found the hidden zone. I told exactly one player where it is.
Probably the players who know about it are keeping it a secret.

Trying to figure out how to adjust the zones around the Suntrust Tower.

Some changes...
6 goes to 8
8 goes to 6
7 goes to 9
9 goes to 7

This should make the GM camping extremely difficult, because last week your kills would respawn right in front of you.
Now they spawn behind you.

I don't know how I got promoted to the rank of "Special Forces", I always thought it was more like "He sure is [special] alright". but I hereby nominate iObserve to be promoted to the rank of "Captain Obvious" Right now I'm thinking two things. Die in Box 6, spawns in Box 8, and vice-versa.... Die i...

I Have a new plugin. It allows me to control where you respawn, based on where you die. You probably noticed my first experiment with it last week. I have now refined the concept. Here's how it's set up right now, we will see how it works out. I reserve the right to change it at any time. http://ima...

Abbreviations to fly above zoned flags, indicating which flag is underneath. All the good flags, most plugin flags, no bad flags. They Spin! Fully Drawinfo. Meaning no collisions. If we had billboarding I'd use it. Each abbreviation built with it's center at point 0 0. Move them around with the prov...

There can be only one Apocalypse. Will never be another.
I am working on something for twenty twenty. viewtopic.php?f=66&t=20361&p=177772#p177772
The action there is to allow players to choose their own weapon.... The DMZ is a new concept.

The latest MacOS does not accept 32 bit applications, and i was having other problems with modeltool, and... We're not positive exactly what happened, but it looks like modeltool updates that Trepan added in 2.99 branch got lost somewhere in the last ten years. We think it got lost in the move from ...

It uses Zehra's new plugin the De-Militarized Zone, or DMZ That plugin uses Allejo's 2015 addition of the bz_CustomZoneObject class. The DMZ uses 32 teleporters with 64 custom links. Sixteen flag zones inside the DMZ will allow players to choose which flag they want to use. Trying to speed up play, ...

What can I say? WOW! and Thank You from the bottom of my heart. I always craved fast action, and did what I could to make Dutchrai's map play as fast as I could. The key is really making it exciting when there is a low player count. For any map, If it never makes it past 4 players it never makes it ...

After upgrading to OSX 10.15 Catalina, when playing BZFlag the fan on my late 2013 iMac would shift into overdrive. One sensor reported 191degrees F. A couple guys on IRC gave me the solution.

On the "display settings" panel, set "energy saver" to "vertical sync"

The newer configuration options have made it quite effective against the evolving tactics of those wishing to evade it's effects.

Unown: please answer the private message I have sent you.

Let me see if I can explain this in a way everyone can understand. If you simply add "passable" to your object you get an object that tanks and shots don't interact with. If that's what you want, then it's fine. If you have a high-poly object and you do want coldet interaction, now you need the invi...

if you have materials, they should be in a seoerate .mtl file. I always like to make a copy of modeltool and put it in the same folder as the diconf, and the obj file, and the .mtl file. That way I don't have to worry about paths. // comment lines should use this format, not # oh... and the wiki sho...

I had various models of the starship enterprise at 10,000, 25,000, 40,000, and 100,000 polygons.

That didn't work in my tests.

As I see it, here is the problem... BZ has no problem displaying high polygon counts. That's displaying them. It is collision detection (coldet) which greatly slows the client. Checking to see if each and every polygon has a bullet or tank hitting it is the cause of reduced frame rates. My solution ...

"a loaf of bread" check your private messages.

Uccio Taken Care of...

Also, there are warnings to those who pick up a teamflag with unfair teams.

Self-Capture of your own flag on the other base is now a variable. Self-Capture is now a thing, but I don't think that will last very long.

The plugin is working, but It will take a few days to perfect it.

The CTF flag capture bounties and the penalties for unfair teamflag capture were one of the original functions of the Apocalypse-In-Action plugin. Those parts of the APOC plugin have now been split off into a new plugin called CTF-Overseer. The new plugin has a configuration file which can be change...

It happens. The F12 detector does occasionally indicate false positives. Admins are not immune, It's even gotten me once. The auto-ban is not very long, but I have removed it. Only leave while dead, (die before leaving) and you are 100 percent safe. One thing though... the plugin remembers you, and ...

After six months of talking about it, and thanks to Allejo, we now have a change to Team-Flag-Genocide. It required a server mod that "finalizes" a player's death. You must be alive to collect genocide kills. This means: 1. When you fire a geno shot, but you die before that shot hits another player,...

The reason Gun-Game disappeared was a huge and insurmountable bug. We we using a technique of "Flag Zapping" where first we would take away the flag you had, and then zap the new flag to you. Because of packet loss, sometimes a flag would fail to reach the tank it was sent to. This would be extremel...

We are very pleased to announce PROgressive FLAG Passion is coming out of it's testing phase today. Pro Flag Server Plugin by Zehra. Right now I'm using it with the old Passion map, but I have a map in development specifically designed for this plugin. Game play a significant change from anything th...